Home Again

It's deliciously cool outside. mmmm, fog.


Today's earrings: would have been compasses, but for the metal detectors

Bedtime reading: Logorrhea, John Klima, ed.

Vacation: All I Ever Wanted

Today I got to meet the shopping carts with the built-in cars. OMG, bestest thing ever. I got pictures. :)

Other than that, I mostly flollopped about while K&S thought deep thoughts. Oh, and I had breakfast with D, and helped read him bedtime stories. So cute!

I shall relay the alternate venue selection to S. (Thanks M!)


Today's earrings: bees, peas

Bedtime reading: Children: The Challenge, Rudolf Dreikurs and Vicki Soltz

This boat and all who sail in her

K made banana muffinlets first thing this morning. mmmm, banana.

R stopped by midday. The leg that was bitten by the leech yesterday was swelling. K gave him some literature on the symptoms of scary infections and sent him home, in hopes of scaring his folks into going to the emergency room.

Laxity...laziness...indolence...

K & I went to visit a neighbor who has a small boat and no clue. K got the sail rigged (lateen, not fore-and-aft, so it took an extra minute to figure out & set up), gave a quick lesson in which way to turn the tiller and how to sheet in, urged them to keep the centerboard down, and launched the neighbor's niece & nephew in the newly-christened boat, Fred. Fortunately, they also took the paddle, George, with them.

We came home. Made & ate guacamole. Finished a crossword puzzle.

D woke up from his nap, and S took him by R's. Shortly thereafter, got a call from S. The swelling wasn't going down, and R couldn't really walk. R's parents were taking him to the emergency room. Could K bring by the crutches from the upstairs closet? So we took them by. D busied himself moving a mound of dirt for R's father while we talked on their lawn. After sufficient dirt had been moved, we came home. Had dinner. Retired, exhausted.


Today's earrings: turtles, other turtles

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

Potluck Picnic

Today was the Annual Meeting of the H's Lake Society. S went, and talked about sterile fish and speed limits. We all tagged along after for the potluck. The food was good. Even better: a rolling-down hill close a hand. K&D rolled down it. R, who seems to want to be Bill Irwin when he grows up, rolled down with acrobatic & pratfall embellishments. I taught him the Interrupting Starfish. More important, I got pictures. :)

By the time we got home I was melting, so I stayed in the house with the ceiling fan. The menfolk went to watch horses jump, and later visited the frogs [brek-kek-kek-kek, brek-kek-kek] up at the Gardens.

We grilled dinner out back. Fortunately, we got everything in before the skies opened up. There was thunder and lightning, and lots of rain all falling at once.


Today's earrings: scarabs

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling

My nephew: Even cuter than a wee froggy on a lilypad

Slept in.

In the afternoon, went to the tiny local zoo w/ S&D. That zoo has two emu. We saw one of the emu lunching on tree. Elsewhere, there were several red pandas flolloping about. In another elsewhere, an otter. He was lively.

Then we went to the Wethersfield Gardens. Strong recommend, d/t
a) excellent views, plus a bunch of Formal Vistas
b) peacocks, in both white and technicolor.
c) great big huge hedges
d) perfect places to have tea
e) frogs in the water features. Ribbit!

K&S each took a spin in Deadwood, while I daintily sipped lemonade and read HP on the lawn. D was immersed in earth-moving endeavors (he's moving the mulch from the place mid-lawn that used to hold a tree to the place under the kitchen window that now holds lavender).

Homemade pizza for dinner, plus G&N+G-A turned up. (A is studying German, in Germany.)

D turns out to be a contrarian. Ask a question, and his first response will be "no." Ask again, and the answer tends to be different. I'm trying to teach him to say "contrarian." I'd appreciate everyone's help with this.

S says he'd like to be taken to the Blue Nile for his birthday.


Today's earrings: little flowers, floral deco triangles

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

Busy busy day

K&D&me went to story hour at the library, and checked out some books
...to a coffee shop for muffins
...to a totally excellent playground, with a cannon, and a digging device, and a train, and a really tall spiral slide, and shady swings
...to the supermarket for fruit and cheese, and also sausages and other good stuff
...to the window store for screens, where we met two mellow dogs lying in the shade, who rolled over to have their bellies scratched
...home for lunch on the lawn
...and then K&me took a nap.

S&D went to the beach and to drop off books at another library, and when they came home, D took a nap.
K&S went for a swim in the lake.
D woke up, and we all changed for K's birthday dinner. The food was delicious. There were basil mashed potatoes, and it was good.
S&D got up and walked around some - they went to the little library across the street from the restaurant that's open until 9. After dinner, we went back and checked out more books.

I have a sunburn, and wish to begin experimenting with adding basil to my potatoes.


Today's earrings: strawberries, citrine teardrops

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling

Arrived!

I'm at K&S's. Got here, took a nap, had dinner, read to Daniel with sound effects, discussed the deplorable state of sport in the world, going to bed.

It's been a full day.


Today's earrings: no earrings, d/t metal detectors.

Bedtime reading: Children: the Challenge, Rudolf Dreikurs & Vicki Soltz